Remeber this?

September 4, 2003 5:47 AM from

DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN...?

All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?
It took five minutes for the TV warm up?
Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school?
Nobody owned a purebred dog?
When a quarter was a decent allowance?
You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?
Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?
All your male teachers wore neckties and female
teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels?
You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped,
without asking, all for free, every time?
And you didn't pay for air?
And, you got trading stamps to boot?
Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?
It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a
real restaurant with your parents?
They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed . . .
and they did?
When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car... to cruise, peel out, lay rubber
or watch submarine races, and people went steady?
No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the
car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?
Lying on your back in the grass with your friends and saying things like,
"That cloud looks like a ..."
and playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?
Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals
because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?

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Reply #1 September 4, 2003 5:53 AM from

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Damn Stephen, didn't kmow you were as old as me. I do remember those days. Went outside to play and was gone all day, and my Mom didn't worry about me getting kidnapped ( 7-9 years old). Yeah, I remember those days.

Reply #2 September 4, 2003 6:11 AM from

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yes, i remember those days fondly

times have diffently changed, some for the better but most for the worse. and to think we thought we had it rough back in the 60's and 70's. to be honest, i'd hate to be a kid today. things were so much simpler back then.

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Reply #3 September 4, 2003 6:18 AM from

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Yes, being a kid today would be awful. They just do not get how much can be done outdoors even if you are alone.
Sad

Reply #4 September 4, 2003 6:31 AM from

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It seems like most every toy my 4 yr old has needs a battery and sometimes I kid him that 'When I was a kid, a stick was the best toy I had!'
Come to think of it, that's not too far off the mark.

Reply #5 September 4, 2003 6:32 AM from

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WOM, I prefer to think of it as not older, just better.

Reply #6 September 4, 2003 6:51 AM from

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Yeah PIC, we do get wiser, it is a shame the kids nowadays don't realize that. Been there, done that. Batteries, bon't remember needing them as a child. Teenager yes. Forgot, where in TX. are you at.

Reply #7 September 4, 2003 7:11 AM from

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I'm in Tyler, WOM
Except for a time spent in Denison, been here all my life. Nice place but growing. I live kinda out in the country though so it's not too bad.

Reply #8 September 4, 2003 7:14 AM from

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I remember playing with Legos while the cold war was at its height....

Reply #9 September 4, 2003 7:15 AM from

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There was no need to lock the doors to the house....... whether you were home or not.
That quarter allowance would buy 2 sodas, and 2 candy bars.
Gasoline was never higher than 25.9 cents a gallon, and often the gas stations would have a price war, and it would go down to 17.9 cents...... (I remember working at a gas station, when I was in High school, for 90 cents an hour)
I miss my ole '53' Chevy Coupe...

Reply #10 September 4, 2003 7:22 AM from

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I could go to the movies (2 pictures and comics) get a soda and box of popcorn all for 50 cents. Gas was 16.9 for premium (gas war all the time) good thing cause my 58 vette only got 6 miles to the gallon. 2 bedroom appt. furnished and all utilities paid was $110 a month. Only made $3 an hour but it went farther back then.

Reply #11 September 4, 2003 7:34 AM from

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We had free movies on weekends.It was called "Bell check theater"Your mother would cut the checkmark off a quart of milk and they let you in free to see 2 godzilla movies.Parents must have loved it.

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I wish i grew up around WW2....

Reply #13 September 4, 2003 9:36 AM from

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Oh, yeah. I almost forgot those Saturday morning matinees.
War of the Worlds, Time Machine, Buck Rogers, great stuff!

As a kid we would go around and collect soda bottles to turn in for the deposit. Didn't take too many to get a soda and a candy bar. soda 10 cents, candy bar 5 cents and all kinds of candy for a penny.

Reply #14 September 4, 2003 9:41 AM from

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2 cents for the regular bottle and 5 cents for the quart. Did the same thing.

Reply #15 September 4, 2003 10:03 AM from

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a quarter could buy enough candy at the corner store to rot most of your teeth. The most expensive were jaw breakers at 3 cents each!

I lived on my bicycle. Could be gone for hours. Of course, back then school was for the whole day Monday to Friday. No field trips for skiing, swimming, bowling or any of that stuff.

Reply #16 September 4, 2003 11:22 AM from

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the cocacola bottles were still from glass

Reply #17 September 4, 2003 11:36 AM from

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Yeah STYL, and the cars were not made of plastic. Get hit by a 50's or 60's car and these things now a days will be in a heap.

Jaw breakers were 2 cents when I got them. Your right, a quarters worth of candy would fill up both jeans pockets and last all day.

Reply #18 September 4, 2003 12:05 PM from

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Of course WOM. 3 cents Canadian is 2 cents US!

Reply #19 September 4, 2003 12:08 PM from

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Sorry Garry, forgot you were in Canada.

Reply #20 September 4, 2003 12:10 PM from

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you're right wom, the sovjet (ussr, rusland etc) made their cars from 6 millimeter steal

Reply #21 September 4, 2003 2:53 PM from

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the cocacola bottles were still from glass

and still had cocaine in them to way back when...

And when oh when are we going to finally get rid of pennies?

Reply #22 September 4, 2003 7:00 PM from

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and still had cocaine in them to way back when...

Coca-Cola never had cocaine in it, it was coca,(hence the name) and there is a difference.......... but that was outlawed in the 30's I think. Definitely long before the time period we're discussing.

Reply #23 September 4, 2003 7:14 PM from

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Koasati, coke had cocaine in it when it first came oyt in the 1800's as it wasn't a soft drink, it was for medicinal purposes and was sold as a cure all.

Reply #24 September 4, 2003 7:21 PM from

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No, it had coca in it, which is what cocaine is derived from, but to say coca, and cocaine is the same, would be to say opium, and heroine are the same thing. btw.......... most of the older drinks, we think of as soft drinks now, were originally some sort of tonic, or a 'cure' for something. Dr. Pepper was originally a hangover cure.

Reply #25 September 4, 2003 7:22 PM from

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Remember when "homework" consisted of plopping down 4 or 5 textbooks (after carrying them all day...pre-backpack days) and notebook paper and pencil...reading the assignments, and writing your notes/answers? Or researching an assignment meant going to a library...

Didn't have computers then...well, not anything that would fit in a classroom, much less on a desk!

Darn computers!....they're evil I tell you!

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